Intestine-cleaner.



O. JENSEN.

INTESTINE CLEANER.

APPLICATION vman Dsc. 20. 191s.

,302,054 Patented Apr. 29,1919.

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OLE JENSEN, OF COPENHAGEN, DENMARK.

INTESTINE-CLEANER.

Speccation of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 29, ll9i9.

Application filed December 20, 1918. Serial No. 267,676.

'after the intestine has been turned in such a manner that its naturalinner side becomes its outer side, scrape olf the layer of mucus that isformed thereon, and the particular characteristic of the inventionresides in the construction of the cylinders of thin steel wires orsteel ribbons fastened at their ends to two yieldingly supported ringswhich form the ends of the cylinders.

The invention is shown on the drawing, wherein- Figures l and 2 are,respectively, an end view and a side view of the machine.

In the drawing l is a stand with two pairs of coperating cylinders 2, 2and 8, 3 all of which cylinders are driven at the same speed by means ofsuitable gearing.

Above these cylinders is a pair of coperating guide cylinders 4, 4 whichmove slower than the scraping cylinders, so that the surfaces of thelatter will exert a scraping action on the intestines.

0n each of a pair of plates 5 or the like arranged one at each side ofthe machine are pivoted two arms 6 and 7, the two arms 6 carrying acollecting roller 8, and the two arms 7 carrying a similar roller 9.These rollers may be caused to rotate in alternation by swinging firstone and then the other into a position in which the two gears 10 withwhich they are each provided are meshed with the gears on the ends ofone of the upper cylinders 3.

The machine works in the following manner:

On the roller 8, which is then in elevated position, overlying one ofthe guide cylinders 4, there is supposed to be rolled up a quantity ofintestines to be cleaned, and when the guide cylinders rotate, theintestines will by and by be rolled off from the cylinder 8 and passdown through the pair of guide cylinders to the upper pair of scrapingcylinders 3, between which they ultimately pass and are delivered to thelower pair, but owing to the guide cylinders 4, 4, having a slowerperipheral speed than the scraping cylinders, the latter will scrape theintestines free from the layer of mucus that is on them.

While the intestines are being unrolled from the roller 8, a freshquantity may be rolled up on the roller 9, so that said roller 9 maythereafter be swung upwardly into position above the roller 8, when thelatter has become empty.

In order to avoid bursting or other damage of the intestines thescraping cylinders are made springy, that is, they consist of parallelrows of thin steel wires or ribbons 1l, which are fastened at their endsto rings 12, which are connected by radial springs 13 with the hubs ofthe cylinders.

Having now described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is l. In an intestine cleaner, the combinationof a pair of coperating scraping cylinders each having its peripherycomposed of narrow strips of spring steel; a pair of coperating guidecylinders located above the scraping cylinders for feeding theintestines thereto; and means for driving the scraping rollers at agreater peripheral speed than the guide rollers. v

2. In an intestine cleaner, a pair of coperating scraping cylinders eachcomprising a pair of resiliently supported end rings, and narrow stripsof spring steel connected at opposite ends to said rings and forming theperipheral wall of the cylinder.

3. In an intestine cleaner, the combination 'of a pair of counterpartscraping cylinders; a pair of coperating guide cylinders located abovethe scraping cylinders for feeding the intestines thereto; gearing fordriving the scraping cylinders in unison; and a pivotally-mountedcollecting roller provided with a gear and movable bodily from a lowerposition adjacent one of the scraping cylinders in which its gearengages and is rotated by the driving gearing, to wind up a mass ofintestines on said collecting roller, to an upper position in which itoverlies the guide cylinders to deliver the intestines thereto.

4. In an intestine cleaner, the combination of a pair of coperatingscraping` cylinders;

gearing for driving them in unison at the feeding means to deliver theintestines saine surface speed; means for feeding inthereto. v l0testines to said scraping Cylinder; and a In testimony whereof I aiiiXmy signature. pivotaHy-niounted Collecting roller movable OLE JENEN fromzi position in which it engages and is rotated by said drivinggearing towind up zi Witnesses:

mass of intestines upon it, to a position in CHARLES TENDE, which it isdisposed in proximity to said E. VEIsKoW.

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